This thread is to help deferred students get a sense of what they are competing against in the regular pool and realize their chances for acceptance in March.
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):
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[ b]Subjective:**
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays: Common App (X/10), Princeton Supplement (X/10), Princeton Engineering (X/10)
[ *] Teacher Recommendations:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview:
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[ b]Other**
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?:
[ *] Intended Major:
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity (Hispanic Y/N/not reported):
[ *] Race(s) (AI/AN, Asian, AA, NH/PI, White, not reported):
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.):
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[ b]Reflection**
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
[ *] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
[ *] Where else are you applying for RD:
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[ b]General Comments:**
Feel free to share your Stats!
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 2200 (690 math, 740 CR, 770 writing)
[ *] ACT: 33 (35 English, 34 Reading, 31 Math, 31 Science)
[ *] SAT II: 750 Math II, 740 Spanish
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/330
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): US History-5, Psychology-5, Language & Composition- 4
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus, AP Literature, AP Spanish, AP Chemistry, Government (Level 1), Honors Anatomy & Physiology
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): National Merit Commended Student (215 PSAT), AP Scholar, Harvard Book Award, and a lot of school awards
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[ b]Subjective:**
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 years of basketball (captain 15-16), 4 years of swimming (captain 15-16), National Honor Society member, school ambassador
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Youth basketball referee, babysitter.
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: 100+ hours at a local hospital, 40+ hours giving tours of school, and several hours doing miscellaneous activities around town
[ *] Summer Activities: Summer volunteer, Basketball camp counselor the last 3 summers
[ *] Essays:
Common App- 8/10
Dartmouth Supplement- 6/10 (decent, also noticed a typo after submitting it)
[ *] Teacher Recommendations: I haven’t read either of them, but I imagine that they were strong. I’m particularly close with one of my teachers who I know spoke highly of me as both a student and a person. I would likely give them a 9/10 and a 7/10.
[ *] Counselor Rec: Haven’t read, but I’m guessing a 10/10
[ *] Additional Rec: Peer recommendation from my friend who I’ve known for over 10 years. I didn’t read it, but I know she spent a lot of time on it. She knows me very well and I’m sure it was great.
[ *] Interview: Went well! Was only about 30 minutes, but I was well-spoken and confident. He didn’t ask me as many questions as I thought he would, but it went well overall.
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[ b]Other**
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[ *] Intended Major: Biology for a pre-med track, but I would also like to continue studying Psychology and Spanish.
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): rather not say, but in New England
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: medium sized public
[ *] Ethnicity (Hispanic Y/N/not reported): no
[ *] Race(s) (AI/AN, Asian, AA, NH/PI, White, not reported): White
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] Income Bracket: ~150k
[ *] Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.): none
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[ b]Reflection**
[ *] Strengths: strong recommendations, strong transcript, commitment to ECs, test scores?
[ *] Weaknesses: My essays were okay but definitely weren’t my strongest point. My math scores were also a little weak.
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I think I’m a generally strong applicant, but I don’t have stellar ECs that a lot of accepted students do. Still, I’m well-rounded and I have strong grades and relatively strong test scores.
[ *] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: I only applied to Dartmouth.
[ *] Where else are you applying for RD: I will be applying RD to a handful of small competitive New England schools.
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[ b]General Comments:** I was upset at first, but deferral isn’t the worst outcome. There’s still hope that I’ll see some of you on campus next year! Best of luck to you all as we continue our senior year.
Feel free to share your Stats
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 2260
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II: Bio 800, Physics 770
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 66
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5’s in bio,physics mechanics, physics EM, world history, US gov, lang, calc ab
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: Calc C, chem ap, english lit, Intern/Mentor II, French V AP, Computer sci honors
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):
Scholar athlete
AP scholar w distinction
National Merit letter of commendation
recipient of SMART grant (2.5k research grant awarded to professional researchers and med students, beat out 1,500 other international candidates and the first and only high schooler to ever win. Project was for inventing novel technique to study secondary neuronal death in spinal cord injury
co author on spinal cord injury paper
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[ b]Subjective:**
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Mock trial (defense attorney)
MUN (staff organizer)
National honor society member
Food on the 15h charity (founder of school branch)
Varsity baseball ( 3 years)
JV football (1 year, ended in injury)
Religious youth group
Chemathon chemistry team captain (3 years)
afs international exchange regional coordination (2 years)
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
Paid neurosurgery research fellow, first high schooler in history to be on faculty for Neurosurgery lab, let alone medical school, authored grant proposals, lit reviews, currently undertaking independent projects
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
insane amounts through NHS, AFS, and religious youth group
[ *] Summer Activities:
lib lab baby
[ *] Essays: Common App 10/10, was published in school newspaper as most unique creative writing essay in recent years. was about crushing stress of being a faculty researcher and a high schooler, and how I feed off of it
supp 9/10, was about how literature and poetry helped me to recover from massive surgical complications and how weightlifing is basically poetry
[ *] Teacher Recommendations: (10/10) and (7/10), both loved me but second teacher’s english may not be the best… she’s a retired researcher from beijing
[ *] Counselor Rec: (10/10) Love the woman
[ *] Additional Rec: (10/10) and (10/10), dear friend and PI of lab
[ *] Interview: short, but we hit it off
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[ b]Other**
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: yeah bro
[ *] Intended Major: Neurosciences and biochem
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): mid Atlantic
[ *] Country (if international applicant): USA USA
[ *] School Type: extremely competitive public
[ *] Race(s) (saltine cracker
[ *] Gender:M
[ *] Income Bracket: 100k
[ *] Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.): basically a grown medical researcher in a teenager’s body
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[ b]Reflection**
[ *] Strengths: basically everything except for my gpa
[ *] Weaknesses: GPA. I spent a lot of time out of my freshman year due to surgical complications and my GPA suffered
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I guess I was expecting it, but I completely forgot to include why my gpa seems very low. Hopefully, after clarification, the point is gotten across.
[ *] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: no
[ *] Where else are you applying for RD: eh
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[ b]General Comments:** why won’t you love me Dartmouth?
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t take.
[ *] ACT: 34 C (35 E, 33 M, 33 R, 34 S)
[ *] SAT II: 730 Biology M, 710 Math 2
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.05
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t officially rank but top 10%.
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): IB exams are next May.
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: Full IB Diploma.
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Honor Roll every semester, some MUN awards.
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[ b]Subjective:**
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model United Nations (President), School Newspaper (Department Head), Varsity Tennis (Team Captain), Film-making (Did a competition where I received several awards; also recorded some school events), some smaller activities.
[ *] Job/Work Experience: None.
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Roughly 100 volunteer hours in various projects in and out of school.
[ *] Summer Activities: Lots of tennis, volunteering, etc.
[ *] Essays: Common App (8/10), Supplement (9/10) Mainly talked about my background and how it shaped me as a person in both essays.
[ *] Teacher Recommendations: 2 teachers, can’t really rank because I haven’t read them but I have a good relationship with both of them.
[ *] Counselor Rec: Same situation as teacher recs.
[ *] Additional Rec: N/A
[ *] Interview: Went pretty well. Talked about my interests, asked some questions, etc.
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[ b]Other**
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[ *] Intended Major: Undecided
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): California
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: Small private school
[ *] Ethnicity (Hispanic Y/N/not reported): No
[ *] Race(s) (AI/AN, Asian, AA, NH/PI, White, not reported): White
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Income Bracket: >100,000
[ *] Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.): None
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[ b]Reflection**
[ *] Strengths: ACT, leadership
[ *] Weaknesses: Lack of hooks, subject tests, race
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Didn’t stand out enough I guess. At least I’ll have another chance through the regular decision pool.
[ *] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted to NEU.
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[ b]General Comments:** We all have another chance, so let’s stay positive and hope we can meet at Dartmouth next year!
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t Take
[ *] ACT: 34 Composite, 33 Math, 33 Science, 35 English, 34 Reading
[ *] SAT II: 770 Biology E, 780 Math II, 770 US History
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 96.5/100, my school doesn’t do 4.0 scale for unweighted
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School Doesn’t Rank
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 on US History, 4 on AP Calculus, those are the only APs my school offers junior year
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Physics B, AP Spanish V, AP Government, Concert Band
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Silver Medal on National Spanish Exam, Yale Book Award
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[ b]Subjective:**
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Math Team (Captain), Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society (President), Christian Student Mission Club, Peer Counseling, Tutoring, National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Tri-M Honor Society, Concert and Marching Band
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Head Busboy at restaurant
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: 150 hours at local hospital lab, town historical society, food bank
[ *] Summer Activities: Volunteering
[ *] Essays: Common App (9/10), Dartmouth Supplement (8/10)
[ *] Teacher Recommendations: Both are teachers that know me very well
[ *] Counselor Rec: My counselor doesn’t know me very well, didn’t really talk to her before the college application process
[ *] Additional Rec: Peer Recommendation very good
[ *] Interview: The guy was in a hurry but I think it went well
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[ b]Other**
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[ *] Intended Major: Economics and Ancient History
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): Connecticut
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: Private Catholic
[ *] Ethnicity (Hispanic Y/N/not reported): No
[ *] Race(s) (AI/AN, Asian, AA, NH/PI, White, not reported): White
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Income Bracket: >$200,000
[ *] Hooks/tips (URM, athlete, legacy, 1st gen, etc.): None
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[ b]Reflection**
[ *] Strengths: Grades, test scores
[ *] Weaknesses: No hook, lackluster ECs, but after being on College Confidential for so long, everything about my app seems weak
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Nothing standout
[ *] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted early action to Villanova and Fordham
[ *] Where else are you applying for RD: I’ve applied to Georgetown, Tufts, Amherst, Boston College (Legacy), Lehigh, Lafayette, University of Rochester, UCONN, Connecticut College
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[ b]General Comments:**
I was expecting this the whole time, but its still disappointing. Even though I’m still technically in the running, I’m kind of moving on from Dartmouth and looking to my other regular decision schools. Good luck to everyone with Dartmouth and your other schools!
How nervous are you all for 5pm? I’m not expecting much, but I can’t wait to finally get an answer after this long.
Good luck, all!